Word: cliffords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House lawn bending under the assault. But Mr. Truman himself was not bending. He was determined to fight his battle out at whatever cost. He had ordered John Steelman, his "labor adviser" and Lewis' solicitous friend, to stand in the corner. The President conferred principally with young Clark Clifford, his special counsel, who seconded Mr. Truman's assertion that now was the time to stand firm. That was the word Clifford passed along to Interior Secretary Julius Krug and Attorney General Tom Clark...
...needed, to the coal strike. It was scarcely needed. Legal infantry were carrying out his orders in the court battles, following a strategy planned in advance. All that Harry Truman required was a series of position reports and estimates of the situation. These he got from his counsel, Clark Clifford, who was in & out of his office unnumbered times...
...service.
¶Named a Republican small-businessman, William Chapman Foster of
New York, to succeed Democrat Alfred Schindler, resigned, as Under Secretary
of Commerce.
...permanent residents, scorning what McKelway calls the "short timers." The cave-dwellers get their names in the paper regularly, at social gatherings and community club meetings. They can't do without the oldfashioned, fussily-detailed front-page cartoons, drawn in familiar, familial style by 77-year-old Clifford K. Berryman and his son Jim. And the best-read feature is Charles E. Thracewell's This & That column, which is about birds and bugs...
...cabinet room of the White House he faced them, nine whom he could trust: his special counsel Clark Clifford, Postmaster General Bob Hannegan, Attorney General Tom Clark, OPA Boss Paul Porter, Under Secretary of State Will Clayton, Under Secretary of the Treasury O. Max Gardner, OWMR Boss John Steelman, Agriculture's Robert H. Shields, OPA's Richard Field...